WONDER #2476: Who Discovered Penicillin?

Question 1 of 3

Which of these people was NOT involved with the development of penicillin?

  1. Louis Pasteur
  2. Alexander Fleming
  3. Howard Florey
  4. Norman Heatley

Question 2 of 3

Penicillin was the very first __________________.

  1. medicine
  2. antiviral
  3. antibiotic
  4. cough syrup

Question 3 of 3

This Wonder was mainly about...

  1. the life of Ernst Chain.
  2. the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and how to avoid contact with it.
  3. how to win a Nobel Prize.
  4. the discovery of penicillin and how it changed medicine.

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